End Gaza Blockade

End Gaza Blockade

Dear Secretary Kerry,

The people of Gaza are living under a crippling naval blockade that denies them access to fishing waters and basic necessities like medicine, food, and fuel. Over 50% of the population in Gaza is under the age of 18. They have been repeatedly subjected to brutal Israeli military assaults and reside in what can only be described as an open-air prison. As civil and human rights advocates, we ask that you stop enabling the blockade with US military assistance.

Atrocities are atrocities, no matter what “chosen people” commit them. Israel is nothing more than a pan-handling, apartheid, bellicose, fascist state which for decades has violated virtually every important principle of the UN Charter.

If this was Gaza blockading Israel it would be stopped immediately – why is it right the other way round ?

Only fairness brings peace and the longer the situation is allowed to continue the worse it becomes. There are plenty of people in Israel who would like to see it stopped too – let’s give them a voice and try to get peace in the region.

US unquestioning and unexamined support of Israel must end. The atrocities perpetrated on Gaza must end. Arab land was stolen, to create Israel. Arabs must be given human and civil rights. The siege of Gaza must end. and US could end it, if we so chose. Chose, then. Chose to end the siege of Gaza.